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I've often found myself needing -- and thinking a/b building -- a webapp/site for taking/collecting screenshots of other sites. But I'm not sure it'd actually be useful and I certainly don't know if anyone'd pay for it.

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I was thinking of building something like this recently to test my Django + background worker skills.

http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/ is one of better screen capture engines I found for OSX. Most are based on Webkit/QT and Xvfb for Unix support.

There were quite a few of these that popped up ~5 years ago. I think most of them are gone.

Yeah, most of those were for thumbnailing.

What I'm talking about is most like a screenshot version of archive.org.

That would be useful. Archive.org is better at not breaking than I imagined it would be, but still often leaves broken assets. The combination of the two would be really cool: see the page, and how the page was viewed at the time.

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